The Grain Kings by Keith Roberts

Author:Keith Roberts
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2015-12-30T16:00:00+00:00

The lamps, the engine-rooms, and Bar-Ab great prince, faded in his mind.

The early light lay grey and cold across the lagoon of Bran Gildo. A little swell was running, here so near the open sea; so the river boat, unused to open water, pitched and creaked, rolling to show her weed-stained sides. The light, brightening, gleamed on the complex knotwork at her bow, on her running lamps and burnished port rims. It gleamed on the stern oar, still held by the Kalti steersman; and on the painted name-boards, the Bar-Ko and the Tree. Beside the Kalti his woman stood head bent. The words she muttered were harsh and hurried as the gabbing of a bird; he frowned, inclining his own head in reply. She spoke again; then turned away, climbed to the catwalk above the cargo space. Along it she trudged, dumpy and foreshortened, secure as if she walked on land; while to either side the mist, thinning, disclosed the shapes of other boats, and others, and still more. On each prow, the headropes of the God; on each side, somewhere, the Sign; on each cabintop the fading gleam of lamps of beaten brass. At them the Kalti mother stared; then closed with her hard fingers the eyes of the man who lay in the brushwood stretcher, slipped the Ferryman’s golden coin under the root of his tongue.

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